Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1887-01-01
A FINE SECTION.
SOME OF THE ATTRACTIONS OPa
FERED IN SHASTA.
The Opportunities and Advantage
Awaiting the Homeseeker
and Capitalists.
STRAWBERRY VALLEY. Shasta copntv


EDS. REcoBD-U UNION: will send YOU
another short communication from this
section, as l am greatly interested in the
good work the RECORD UNION is doing in
seeking to make known the wonderful re-
sources of the central and northern por-
tons of our State. There certainly could
not be any better work for any newspaper
to engage into benefit its readers and the
State-and there is no better land than ours
to be described and its great qualities to be
made known.
Ihave been living here in the mountains
thirty-tive years, and regard the foothills
and mountains the best part of the State in
which TO live, both as to opportunities and
for the pleasure and enjoyments in life.
The richest resources of the State are right
here in the mountains, and all any poor
man needs by which to appropriate them
to himself is to be willing to work. This
granted, he can take up or get him a piece
of land at very low price, and with an ak
go TO work with ard split out posts and
shakes. and make good living while be-
tween times of clearing up his land, can
| raise his own potatoes, cabbage, and what
ever he needs to live upon, and excellent
timothy hay for COW and horse, and to
sell. Raising timothy for hay can be made
very profitable, as the lowest price paid
here for hay is S25 per ton, and from that
up to $40. Raising vegetables can also be
made to pay good returns, as the least that
l have known potatoes to be sold for is p
cents per pound, and often as high as 3 or
4 cents. Cabbage, carrots, and all other
kinds of vegetables bring corresponding
prices, and as can be seen, yield good profit
for use of land and the labor expended.
1t will be seen that few years, and a
proper amount of industry and patience,
will secure TO any man and family good
home and competency. Within from two
to five years most all kinds of fruit can be
brought into bearing, and the finest quality
of apples, pears, peaches, plums, prunes,
| ounces figs, etc, as we'll as all kinds of
| berries to be found elsewhere, can be raised
| right here, of the most perfect and in the
most unlimited abundance. And they caA
not only be raised, but there is demand
| for all that can be grown, and at remunera-
| tive prices Apples are now selling at 81 %
| per box, but it would be much more profit
able, if person does not greatly need the
money to keep them until spring, and re-
ceive a very much higher price.
| Most of the land in this vicinity is Gov
eminent domain, and with cow or two,
a person can commence the raising of
| band of cattle that can roam at will, out
side the quarter section he settles upon. OF
| course such an opportunity as this will not
| last always, for this entire section of the
State is bound, before many years, to be all
occupied, except where very broken. The
| large ranges now run over by deer and
other wild game will be reduced to uses of
| civilization, and into small holdings for the
millions of people who are destined in the
| future to occupy this entire Golden State in
| haf nd mt a
the richest and brightest of Gods earthly
heritage for man.
This is the outlook for the young man,
or one who is older, who has industry and
frugality as his helpmeet, but there is no
place here for those who wish TO tramp and
not work-whO desire to subsist on the
earnings of others, importuned from door
to door. In fact, such have no place any
where, and as they have no home, no
country, they should-in the eternal fitness
| of things-have no existence. On the other
hand, what can De more interesting, in
spring and all-satisfying, than for man
who wishes home for himself and little
family, and who loves home because it is
their home in the blessed meaning of this
good old woodland who is determined TO
have such hallowed place and inheritance
to start, if need be, in an humble way,
and to soon see developing fields, growing
fruit trees, plenteous garden, cows, pigs,
chickens and other surroundings of the
newly-acquired possessions, on the path
that leads TO competency wealth ana indie
pendencel
l have spoken OF this section as the
place for men Of small means who are
| willing to show their wOTthiness by the
test of frugal industry and perseverance;
but there is also room and demand here
for men of means and capitalists. The i'm
mense forests Of magnificent sugar pine,
| yellow pine, spruce, fir, cedar, etc, which
abound in this region, with as fine water
IN numerous rivers and streams as can be
found upon the continent, invite invest
ment and the application of energies, with
assurance of highly remuneratiye returns.
In connection with such enterprises the
lumber manufactured can be transported
to any and all distributing points below,
| through fumes and bitches, for which, as
| stated, there is an inexhaustable supply OF
| finest water, and when used, so far as
needed for that purpose, can be
sold at munificent figures for
| irrigation purposes, in foothills and valley.
Then again, there are calls-and warmly
| inviting calls-for capital, to develop the
| inexhaustible deposits of gold and other
precious metals, which abound here, and
! which are known to be almost fabulous in
| richness and extent. These riches lie in
| the old prehistoric river channels of ages
ago, running through and under the noun
tains, and require more means than any
but wealthy people, or combinations of in
divlduals possess, to run tunnels into the
mountain sides, and bring it to the use of
man. Nine miles from my place there is
low mountain range, of about nine miles in
length, where millions of precious treasure
is known to be buried in these old hidden
river channels, but no tunnel has thus far
been run deep enough to drift it out
successfully, but sufficient to prove the
richness and its locality. The outcrop-
pings of these old channels have been n.y.
draulicked to some extent, and outlying
creeks and ravines have been placer mined,
but the main source of all the golden
wealth. which has thus been scarcely
touched, lies beneath the mountain sides,
and to secure which the investment of
thousands is necessary, and will bring in
return-unknown millions
l have hardly touched upon the
undeveloped features and elements of fu-
ture wealth and prosperity which abound
in this part of the upper Sacramento sec
ton of the State, and must leave to new
corners and homeseekers to verify by exam
ination, not only what have stated but
also to realize and testify to their friends
and others not simply that Seeing is be-
Geving," but that " The half has not been
told" w. L.
win Plant His Ranch in Fruit.
Edgar Mills, of Sacramento, banker and